They won’t affect Android builds that aren’t Google-certified directly.
They’ll affect F-Droid in that most people won’t be able to install most apps from F-Droid without an obnoxious process and a waiting period. That will affect what people spend their time building and will likely result in fewer open source apps being created and maintained.
Fuck Google. First, they create an unnecessary problem because they realised they are losing money to FOSS and, then pretend to be an angel by creating a dogshit way to download apps as a solution to the problem they created themselves.
They won’t affect Android builds that aren’t Google-certified directly.
They’ll affect F-Droid in that most people won’t be able to install most apps from F-Droid without an obnoxious process and a waiting period. That will affect what people spend their time building and will likely result in fewer open source apps being created and maintained.
Fuck Google. First, they create an unnecessary problem because they realised they are losing money to FOSS and, then pretend to be an angel by creating a dogshit way to download apps as a solution to the problem they created themselves.